Many schools remained closed Monday and community activities were canceled, though local government offices were open.

Wintry weather that moved through the state Thursday and Friday left snow and ice across the Arkansas River Valley, making road travel hazardous through the weekend.

Road conditions continued to improve, and Russellville Public Works Operations Manager Junior Marple reported all city streets were open by the end of the day Monday.

Pope County Judge Jim Ed Gibson said crews were working to continue to improve county roads and hoping slightly warmer temperatures predicted for today would help.

“If it’ll warm up just a little bit, it’ll sure help us a lot,” he said.

Gibson said the biggest challenge county road workers faced has been the ice.

“We can handle the snow pretty well, but the ice is just hard to break loose,” he said.

Both city and county officials said they were working on clearing trees and branches.

The weather caused the death of one Pope County man, when an icy tree branch fell and landed on the fifth-wheel camper trailer where he was sleeping.

Elsewhere, the weather caused several motor vehicle collisions and dozens of cars to run off the roadway. Drew Latch, public information officer with the Russellville Police Department, said the department saw the highest number of vehicles drive off the roadway on Sunday. He estimated there were 40-50 vehicles that left the roadway before noon on that day.

Pope and Yell counties experienced the highest numbers of power loss in the state, with 6,875 customers in the two counties without power at the peak of the outage.

Entergy spokesperson Bruce Tucker said by 1:25 p.m. Monday, power had been returned to all customers, though shortly after another outage occurred that knocked out power to 58 residents.

Tucker said Entergy anticipated similar isolated outages may occur as ice begins to melt and loose tree limbs fall.

At one point, 626 linemen and support personnel were in Russellville, which served as a staging area for work crews. As of Monday afternoon, Tucker said only one crew of 30 linemen and support personnel remained in Russellville.